Mar 19, 2019
The Isle of Her from Alfred Jarry’s 1911 novel Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien. The map comes from The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (the revised and expanded edition published in 2000), written by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi and illustrated by Graham Greenfield and Eric Beddows. The title page says, “Maps and Charts by James Cook.” I’m not sure whether that’s a real credit or a facetious reference to the eighteenth century explorer.
I checked this book out shortly after this edition was published, and the descriptions of Jarry’s bizarre locales really stuck in my mind. I still haven’t read Docteur Faustroll, however.
